Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
Soooooooo, u gonna post what u ended up with? Or just gonna keep us all in suspense?
$60-$90 to redraw that! I am telling you artworksource.com will do it for $15 and if you upload it at 6pm you will have it back by 6am. Work smarter not harder. Trying to sit there and battle with artwork is something that I did for years. There are a lot of things that I will still do in house, but I know where to say that something is way over my head, I take that artwork, send it out and it comes back right. And I can move on to the next project. Think about it, you spend 3 hours tearing your eyes out trying to get a piece of art right when you could have been making $ working on another project that is profitable. You just cut your margin in that job. You are asking yourself, what about that that extra $15 that artwork source charges, you build it in to the invoice as a artwork fee. I get my customer a great looking product and I am more profitable. And my customers can bring me garbage artwork and we can take care of them and keep them coming back or referring other customers to us.
"But I am not going to pay my guy his hourly wage to spend 2.5 hours vectoring something that a perfectly capable artist overseas can do for $15.